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That's a hard no from me. Once upon a time retreating meant something It meant giving up ground because you had to go all the way back to base and all the way back to the front. Pushing off a squad was a big deal and soft retreats were a thing because of it. Now you have blobs that retreat to a frp just behind the front at the slightest inconvenience because in 12 seconds they will be back on the front. Let's not drag the properly designed factions into that pit of shame too please

No offense but if the Eastern Front Armies were as "properly designed" as you say I doubt they would need the changes the Ost are getting and the Soviets got to bring them in line.

Now you can say that the WFA shook the balance of power upon their release but if we're real here the game would not be as popular as it is right now with just the Ost vs Soviets so it was inevitable to happen at one point in time.

In the Ost vs Soviet match up of pre-WFA I would say yes, they were properly designed but not anymore with the introduction of many new tools, units and options for everybody, and this only proves that they were "properly designed" for that specific time but not anymore.

My suggestion would be the following:
As vet 1 ability Soviet paras get retreat to beacon instead of the AI strafe (with no need to unlock at T4).
As an ability Ostheer can retreat to Bunker but only 1 squad at the time. Then the ability goes on global CD.

That imo would bring them inline while keeping them unique.


The patch allows Ostheer to choose Urban assault commander, as simply as that.\

(With the changes to flamers As. PG are simply broken)

Like I said, I'm fine with it as long as both Armies share the same "feature" so to speak. As it is currently I see no reason why the Soviets should get it in their new commander while Ost can't, they both need it it on the bigger team game maps.

As for the Urban Assault doctrine, by god I fell in love with it.

Of course the obvious balance issues are glaring like the double flame Urban Assault Panzergrenadiers annihilating everything that's not armored and on tracks but part from toning down their flamethrowers I don't really see an issue with them altho I didn't get to test out their survival training upgrade.

Forward Supply Station felt a lot better with the aforementioned retreat point-style ability but could use a price increase and should lose 2 or 3 of it's repair pioneers. It's perfect if you ask me, just give it to the commander bunker as well and maybe a recon ability like the UKF FHQ and it'd be perfect in my opinion.

Incendiary Barrage for the mortars was pretty devastating if you go in range of the enemy HQ so it needs toning down as well.

Munition Blitz has no counter play so it's just better off being replaced by a supply drop I guess or something.

And the Strategic bombing did what it said on the tin altho I don't really see a reason why it followed a similar path to the Stuka's creeping barrage instead of being all over the place like the UKF version, but for 300 munitions I think it did it's job.

Overall a pretty solid and fun commander that I would enjoy playing even when a bit more balanced, I would even dare to say that I would be willing to give money up front for it if they added it.

The only things missing for me really was perhaps the Urban Assault Panzergrenadiers coming in a 250 HT as a sort of mechanized group and maybe a Tiger or King Tiger.

But yeah besides that, it has the polish of an already implemented commander with all of the icons, voice lines, text and so on and just requires some balance to be added officially in the game. I only noticed the Munition blitz saying that there would be a counter of some sorts on the HQ's portrait to show you how much munitions you got from the ability or something along those lines but I don't really mind it.

The idea has some merit to it but only thematically fits the Soviets since the Ost have their commander bunkers which make more sense to have the Forward Retreat Point rather than their 251 Halftrack if you ask me.

I like the idea, maybe the only thing that annoys me is the fact that a fordward HQ SWS after packing up "magically" converts into a swererHQ. But its only a aestetic detail of my part.

An OKM tech rework sound interesting, but the game is already so old and it demands so much investment and resources from the mod team.
Id say if i can, first lets discuss about how already set up SWS are visible through FoW, a mini map hack. It makes so easy to abuse with indirect fire and a well placed ATG.

With regards of SWS being able to pack up and move i really like the idea. But then surges a serious problem. Creeping advance. Lets say you succesfuly defend some part of the map, then you can freely advance a FHQ and dig up again. OKM becomes UKF in disguise and im not entirely fine with it, so to stop creeping abuses i would suggest that in order to move already set up SWS, there is an ability that says so but requires the player to specify where the new emplacement is going to be, meanwhile the SWS packs up and moves but no longer under control of the player.
This way a player can make a real bad mistake into trying to creep up to the enemy base.
But overall i like the idea. +1

Your ideas sound fine but I am not sure how far a person can implement them in the actual game.

If you're interested in further seeing what's possible and what's not I suggest contacting SneakEye since he's the mastermind behind somewhat already implementing what Lago's written here in his All Units Mod altho I gave the original idea back in the commander revamp update.

Instructions unclear. Released the secret Japanese faction DLC.

Still waiting on this, a mixed Italian-German Army.



Also an Italian expansion for CoH which was ditched for CoHO.